[Prime Choice]

This is their 7 Aphorisms:

I. THE PRINCIPLE OF PSYCHOKINESIS
"SUMMUM is MIND, thought; the universe is a mental creation."

II. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE
"As above, so below; as below, so above."

III. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION
"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."

IV. THE PRINCIPLE OF OPPOSITION
"Everything is dual; everything has an opposing point; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes bond; all truths are but partial truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."

V. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM
"Everything flows out and in; everything has its season; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing expresses itself in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."

VI. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
"Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is just a name for Law not recognized; there are many fields of causation, but nothing escapes the Law of Destiny."

VII. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER
"Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; Gender manifests on all levels."

[Alexander Rubin]

That's them alright. Weirdo Egyptian new age gnostics. In other news, here in Toronto, Scientologists are using 9 and 10 year olds to recruit. It sickened me when I saw it.

[JimSEA]

Summum leaders believe these were initially passed only to a select few who could understand them

To quote that great philosopher, Bob Dylan, "It ain't me, Babe, It ain't me you're looking for, Babe."

[Haru Hara Haruko]

everything has its pair of opposites

So, like everything must be infinte, man, like, because if everything has a pair of opposites that's like three things, and, like, that pair of opposites must each have a pair of opposites, so, that's like six things, and each of those three other opposites has, like, wait, I need a calculator... hold muh bong, man.

[Captain Rhino]

Clear as mud. Sounds like something God would have handed down - NOT!!

[spetznaz]

If those are the 7 Aphorisms for real then they follow certain Alchemical principles of magick. Had you not said they were some real faith I could have swore that you lifted them from some Grimoire, probably late 19th century. Interesting.

I did not know these guys still dabbled in the esoteric and occult. That stuff is basically lifted from the the older tradition, in many ways word for word. The only major differences is the wording of the principles, eg instead of the alchemical princinple of signatures the Aphorisms call it the principle of correspondence, and instead of the twin principles of thaumaturgy the Aphorisms have the principle of cause and effect).

The sad thing is these people spend so much time on principles that can be derived from a year old fortune cookie reading,looking for benefits that can be acquired from simply watching a sun set or making a child laugh. Really sad.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

VIII. THE PRINCIPLE OF THE BAH-BAH-BEE-BEE
"What is… is. What was… will be. What will be *was*, but will be again."